Ed's standards

I didn't realize this.

I've mentioned the national history standards a few times, the ones commissioned and, subsequently, killed by Lynne Cheney back in the administration of Bush 1.

Turns out Ed wrote some of the standards!

Along with two other historians, he wrote the standards for 19th and 20th world history.

I love it.

I think I've got them sitting on my bookshelf .... but I have to find out if New York state is actually using history standards written by my husband.

Some of you will remember the school board meeting at which Ed managed to fend off the middle school model for another year. Afterwards he told one of our principals that he's been a disciplinary specialist for 25 years.

She said, "Have you ever wondered if that's your problem?"

Wish I'd known at the time she was talking to one of the guys who WROTE THE STATE HISTORY STANDARDS.

Or, ummmm, might have written the state history standards.

This particular principal, btw, taught social studies before going into administration.

OK, I have to go figure out if New York's standards are the same ones Ed wrote. (Cheney didn't attack the world standards; those never attracted criticism. The action all surrounded the American history standards.)